Reading List February 5, 2006 0 Comments Recently my old paper of employ, the SF Examiner, asked 11 writers to dish on their latest...
January 23, 2006 0 Comments I reviewed Melissa Holbrook Pierson’s eloquent and exasperating “The Place You Love...
January 19, 2006 0 Comments Finally among the flurry of commentaries on the James Frey scandal (and I’ve read most of...
January 10, 2006 1 Comments The Chronicle’s Heidi Benson follows up on the San Francisco reaction to JT LeRoy’s...
January 9, 2006 0 Comments Grotto co-founder Po Bronson’s website has up-to-the-minute pages on the wonderful new...
True Fiction? January 9, 2006 0 Comments Sunday was a big day for literary scandals: First the New York Times unmasked the public face of...
December 23, 2005 0 Comments “Even the worst true thing fills the consciousness with the light of its...
Underlined July 8, 2005 1 Comments “Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting...
Hoop Dreams June 12, 2005 1 Comments The Chronicle asked me to review Melissa King’s memoir of pickup basketball...
Writing the War, and Beyond May 25, 2005 0 Comments London?s Financial Times recently ran an article on the National Endowment for the Arts? new...
Tolstoy with a twist January 30, 2005 0 Comments I’ve got a book review of a rather good novel in the Chron today: “At a glance...
Pub Lit December 22, 2004 0 Comments San Francisco?s Edinburgh Castle Pub–for years now host to traditional fish and chips...
